2021年5月28日，城市交集 Urbancross Gallery将举办全新展览“我们所知道的一切 Alles, was wir wissen”，这是城市交集2021空间概念“建筑师的图房”系列的第二个展览，展览共分为“建筑师的画”和“建筑师的书”两个部分，我们邀请了建筑师吾超展示其最新系列的绘画作品，同时，卷宗书店也将作为我们的合作伙伴给“建筑师的图房”提供为期三个月的主题书展。

Quoting one of the titles from his series: Alles, was wir wissen as the title of this exhibition, Wu Chao Created this series from a must-have encyclopedia in Germany. Wu Chao bringing this subtle maze of references into his drawing. In a position of a foreigner, drawing an encyclopedia that was written thirty years ago, he found himself discovered many entries’ change due to these cultural and temporal dissimilarities, through which the abstract and (supposedly) neutral ideas rebecame images.

His interest in encyclopedias is linked to the experience as a social housing architect. Both the compilation of encyclopedias and the design of social housing require a maximum degree of self-restraint. The object of both is the complicated social reality. In the search for an objective system and rational framework to reproduce this social reality, there is very little room left for authorship. But this is what makes both interesting.

How can we face a world condensed and compacted with social, political, economic, and ecological issues? How can we precede conflicts originated from different cultures and stands? As the physical representation of these complex societies, which direction architecture should take? Can we find ONE tenet behind these complex social implications? If so, should it become a forceful entry in an encyclopedic?

UNO takes this exhibition as an opportunity to turn our space into a cacophonous body for questions asked through Wu Chao’s drawings. With Juanzong Books, we provide a reading-list constructed from the perspective of architecture, culture, city and sociology, which will allow narratives overlapped from personal household, social environment and human territory.

Alongside the exhibition, UNO will further punctuate discussions with a series of public programs, ranging from reading sessions, workshops, and screenings. Please watch out for further upcoming events!